Cad’s Cadenzas
Christopher Driver, 15 September 1988
William Walton: Behind the Façade
by Susana Walton.
Oxford, 255 pp., £12.95, February 1988,0 19 315156 1 Show More
by Susana Walton.
Oxford, 255 pp., £12.95, February 1988,
Façade: Edith Sitwell Interpreted
by Pamela Hunter.
Duckworth, 106 pp., £10.95, September 1987,9780715621844 Show More
by Pamela Hunter.
Duckworth, 106 pp., £10.95, September 1987,
“... dependence upon Peter Pears, the sharer of his bed, shines through most of his later music. Susana Gil alighted upon the gossip circuit of musical Europe as a living anachronism. ‘By God, William is going to marry a native,’ said one of Walton’s friends when the eminent composer’s Buenos Aires flag-showing ... ”
